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    Book Review:: A Winter Wedding Adventure | Leonie Mack

    August 30, 2025

    This novel is exactly what it sounds like: an adventure set during wedding festivities in the winter. Neither Kira or Mattia are characters you might expect to…

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    Book Review:: Love Walked In | Sarah Chamberlain

    August 29, 2025

    Sarah Chamberlain’s sophomore romance is another deep dive into grief and healing, all wrapped up in a rocky-start inevitable romance that’s just what the doctor ordered. Mari’s…

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    Book Review:: Forget Me Not | Stacy Willingham

    August 25, 2025

    Nothing pulls me out of a reading burnout better than a really compelling mystery thriller. Sometimes you just want a book where you can’t stop turning the…

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    Book Review:: Save You | Mona Kasten

    August 22, 2025

    Save You is the second book in the popular teenage drama saga Maxton Hall. If you’ve not yet read book one, please start there. My review for…

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    Book Review:: The Battle of the Bookshops | Poppy Alexander

    August 19, 2025

    It’s the Romeo + Juliet of the 21st century, but make it cozy and super intricate! Of the two bookstore battle books that have come out this…

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    Book Review:: Love at First Sighting | Mallory Marlowe

    August 12, 2025

    Love at First Sighting is no ordinary romance. You might say…ahem…it’s out of this world. Just kidding. It takes place on Earth. But it is tightly wrapped…

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    Book Review:: Wes and Addie Had Their Chance | Bethany Turner

    August 11, 2025

    Another second chance love story out of Adelaide Springs. That place did their youth so bad the universe has conspired against it to bring all the little…

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    Book Review:: The Hounding | Xenobe Purvis

    August 5, 2025

    The Hounding is a new novel by Xenobe Purvis full of mysticism, skepticism, and general uproar over rumor and gossip that will have consequences for an entire…

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    Book Review:: Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes | Sandra Jackson-Opoku

    July 25, 2025

    Readers, we have a new amateur sleuth to enjoy! Sapphire (Savvy) Summers is a small town cafe owner thrown into a murder mystery when a man drops…

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    Book Review:: Not Quite Dead Yet | Holly Jackson

    July 20, 2025

    What do you do with the time you have left after you find out a traumatic brain injury will kill you within days? For Jet, it is…

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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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